Patriarchy CritiqueArticles

New book 'Breaking Free' reveals how 'equality' is a racist, patriarchal ideal that keeps women and marginalized communities chasing an unattainable goal. True liberation requires not equality, but freedom.

Led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 far-right organizations, 'Project 2025' is an 887-page policy blueprint calling for the deletion of terms like 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from federal regulations. This document is a comprehensive declaration of war on women's rights.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.

This article starts from bodily experience to critique contemporary feminism's over-abstraction of 'gender,' exploring the inescapability of the female body, the predicament of gender theory, and the tension between women's freedom and self-exhaustion.

The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.

An interview with Anna Bogutskaya prompts a closer distinction between identification, approval, and the marketing of female rebellion as an empowering personality.

Research from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.

An analysis of South Korea's complex gender landscape, where deep-seated structural inequality coexists with a powerful anti-feminist movement and political shifts that threaten existing protections for women.

This article critiques the expectations of 'perfection' and 'likability' in contemporary feminism, calling for recognition of the complexity and contradictions within feminism, and embracing those 'difficult women' who are nonconformist, hard to categorize, but drive change.

Anna Bogutskaya’s BFI programming note becomes a starting point for examining female agency, curatorial framing, and the difference between a good woman and a compelling character.

This article traces the historical evolution of modern masculinity, revealing the politicization and pathologization of the 'strong man' fantasy on a global scale, and critiques how patriarchy shapes oppressive roles for both men and women.

Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter links bodily autonomy and material rights to feminist organizations’ accountability and shared leadership.